ext2fs error during usage

2014-12-26 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, I was installing software from source after having compiled it, that is just a massive copy exercise when my machine froze with an assertion "refcount detected use-after-free". I attach the whole screenshot with context and error. Riccardo

Re: Reinventing the Hurd server bootstrap

2014-12-26 Thread Justus Winter
Quoting Richard Braun (2014-12-26 17:10:19) > On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 01:58:28PM +0100, Justus Winter wrote: > > It requires only tiny tweaks to libdiskfs, and a tiny patch to gnumach > > that enables us to load non-elf files into tasks. > > What kind of non-elf files ? Any file. I created this

Re: Reinventing the Hurd server bootstrap

2014-12-26 Thread Richard Braun
On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 01:58:28PM +0100, Justus Winter wrote: > It requires only tiny tweaks to libdiskfs, and a tiny patch to gnumach > that enables us to load non-elf files into tasks. What kind of non-elf files ? -- Richard Braun

Reinventing the Hurd server bootstrap

2014-12-26 Thread Justus Winter
Hello :) I've been thinking how to improve the early Hurd server bootstrap. To be clear, this is not about `bootstrap' as in sysvinit, but it is about how to start the very first Hurd servers. Now we all know that system bootstrap is an emotional subject, so I'd like to address any concerns you